St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-20
Miss Nellie stager, of Chicago, Sets a
New Fashion for the Daughters
of Pork and Lard.
A Young Lady Who Thought She Was
Having Her Toe Palace Water
Put in a Ring.
The Average Garden city Girl Proves
Dismal Failure as a Hand
Ter of the cue.
A New Style of Ltonfzing the Dar-
ling Boy--A Bright Italian
Journalist.

us IN the street now, YOU would notice that
we carry our heads several degrees more
lofty, and step several degrees higher than
we did the last time you saw us. we
haven't been over to London and been
winked at by the Prince of Wales, nor have
we immortalzed ourselves by dropping
cold ice down his royal highness' iilustrlous
and sensitive back. No, we have not done
| this but we have been over to London ana
married a lord-a real, live, kicking, Eng
lish lord. do not mean to say that we
have been over in body anu NOR
manized the darling aristocrat.
Only one of us has married him,
but in glorious affairs of this sort, you
know, we accept very peacefully the fact of
our common sisterhood, and readily assume
with her the responsibilities of the step she
has taken. When Nellie says, my lord!
we shall affectionately join in with 'Our
lord" and while Nellie ties the string OF
one of his shoes, we shall insist on tying up
the other. Miss Nellie Stager is the first
Chicago girl to enter the select circle OF
English aristocracy. and when the
NEWS OF HER MARRIAGE
with Lord Arthur Butler was cabled to us,
we gave three cheers and tiger for the
American eagle and the American girl, and
felt like crossing Ell masse to congratulate
her and inquire if Lord Arthur hasn't any
male relatives with tastes similar to his
own. Our lord is brother to the Mar Quis
of Ormonde, who is without wife and
children. Lord Arthur stands next i'll sue
cession, and thus, besides being my lady,
we live in daily danger OF becoming a mar
| quise. 1t was for this that we have been
waiting. Perhaps. at last, Chicago pork.
! lard and dry goods are going to attain that
place among foreign nobility which they
| deserve by virtue OF their quality and their
ability to replenish the purses and satisfy
the creditors OF INDECENT aristocracy. Lady
Butler is not the only Chicago young
woman who has rashly married this month,
| just in time to have her honeymoon go
down in the night of spring house cleaning.
But when one remembers that it is Lent,
| that dancing parties are infrequent, pro-
gressive euchre parties more tedious than
fever and ague, one can scarcely blame the
girls if they do show lack of foresight and
go in for the novelty OF matrimony. OF
course there are some of us who are
| MOURNING OVER OUR SINS,
to the extent OF wearing old Clothes attend
ing church regularly and writing our letters
on black-bordered note paper, who could
not be persuaded to put off our sack cloth
| for bridal veil at this religious season of
the year. But nevertheless, weddings have
| been SO numerous that girl whose mar
riage took place couple of months ago
says she has been paying for her wedding
presents In installmentS by going to we'd
ding week ever since. 1t certainly ought
to give new life to the st. Paul Carnival
association to learn that the success of its
efforts last winter extended to the Abnormal
development Of idiocy i'll Chicago girl.
Among nv first thoughts on behold
| ing the ice palace the first year was: Here
is something that the relic seeker must go
| home without specimen Of" But when
saw men and women triumphantly carrying
off the ice palace by the bottleful, l realized
that the specimen preserver knows no OBJ
stacle in satisfying his desire. A young
woman was married here last week whose
love for the ridiculously novel would have
made her notorious long ago, had not cir
cumstances protected her. Since she came
| home from the carnival last winter cut
glass bottle filled with the ice palace has
had place of honor on her dresser.
She had heard of the woman who had a
child baptized with
| THE ICE PALACE.
and she mourned in secret to think that she
| could not put her half-pint Of sacred Mis-.
sissippi river water to. some equally
original use. She bent her energies to
devising plan whereby she might do so,
and she has finally accomplished her pur-
| pose. She was married with tor thinks
she was-and so gives out the fact to her
friends. But happen to know her lovers
treachery, and knowing this, to be in
formed to the contrary. Her wedding ring
is wide, fiat band with setting resem-
bling the old-fashioned, glass-covered
breast pins in which hair of some deceased
relative used TO be worn, and under the
glass in her ring wabbles bit of the
ice palace-that is she thinks
and gave her bottle of precious water to her
lover to be taken to the jeweler. But the
young man hadn't the bottle with him when
he ordered the ring. and, falling wholly to
appreciate the enviable distinction of being
bound to his wife by piece of an ice pal.
ace. he had the jeweler substitute some of
our muddy Chicago water. The young,
woman, however, is happy in the possession
OF her ring, which is as ugly as it is unique.
and she proudly displays it, waxing elo-
Quent over it's historic feature, while her
guilty husband sits by and bites the ends of
his mustache to conceal smile.
| GIRLS AND BILLIARDS.
never knew but one girl in my life who
could play good game of billiards. and she
was no exception to the rule that women
were not born to play billiards, because she
was in every respect an exceptional girl,
She could say damn it'' with a polite ear
nestness that captiyated all listeners; she
could throw stone without kicking up one
| foot; she could run without squealing and
without painting like a liZald; she could
carry an umbrella without jabbing the ewes
| N
of every street car conductor in town, be-
cause it never took her five minutes to find
her change, and she could hop on and off
car as quickly as any man.
She was an army officers daughter and as
much of credit to her country as was her
| distinguished father Of late, between
church hours, girls are devoting considera-
bic of their time to billiards, using tables in
private houses where they have access to
them, otherwise by their entreaties and
Establishments inducing their male friends
| to take them to their club house. I have
seen more than one man CRATE his teeth
over feminine aWkwardness in handling a
cue, as he was attempting to skill couple
of girls in pool playing. They seem to
have preference for pool. The accidents
on q pool table give them more of chance
to feel that they are really doing some
thing, for all
| ACCIDENTS THEY COUNT
as so much glory. They grasp the cue at
the end as firmly as though they expected to
be called upon to WELD it in self defense.
stand on tp-toe. lean forward, sprawl out
the fingers of the left hand on the table
and then they play. They jerk their arm.
back with all the force at their command,
let it 60, try to pick up the ball on the end
of their cue. and six times out of ten send
the ball off the table across the room.
Twice out of the remaining four times